Turning Your Back Quotes

• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

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  Gene Roddenberry

  Dust   Ideas   Growth  

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• Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

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  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs   Mean   Odds  

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

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  Max Lucado

  Motivational   Strength   Leadership  

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.

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  John F. Kerry

  Jobs   Children   School  

  "Bush Lays Out Campaign Agenda". www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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  Albert Camus

  Turning Your Back   Life Is   Ifs  

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• People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.

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  Warren Mundine

  Eye   Hands   People  

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• You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

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  Ray McGovern

  Thinking   Generations   May  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

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  Pico Iyer

  Turning Your Back   And Love   World  

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  May   Turning Your Back   Sides  

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